Examples

An American-Russian partnership called Night Owl Optics (nightowloptics. com) is manufacturing night-vision goggles, binoculars and monoculars in former Soviet military factories and exporting them to the United States for the consumer market.

So, as I was flipping through Tactical Weapons Magazine the other day (hey, no telling where an intrepid columnist gets her information!) there, among ads for special ops shotguns and mini night vision monoculars, was the strangest contraption I'd ever seen.